– “War is computation with tanks. War is truth revealing. As war proceeds uncertainty collapses.”

– “War is the truth of lies, the rule of rulelessness, anarchy and chaos as they are in reality (which is nothing at all like a simple negation of order). It is the ultimate tribunal, beyond which any appeal is a senseless prayer to the void. A ‘realism’ that resists such conclusions makes a mockery of the name.”

– “An aristocracy is a social arrangement that was decided by war, and when the war is forgotten the institution has no sustainable meaning. There is only one thing that can ‘bring back’ a king, and that is the end of peace.”

And this is why monarchy / aristocracy is not a serious political proposal, at least not the way Moldbug and Anissimov.

Historically, monarchy / aristocracy = rule by warriors and their gradually degenerating descendants.

Some people seem to think that you can replicate this by picking a rich merchant or even a blogger and declaring him king.

Why is this a silly idea?

It’s because “War is truth revealing” in a way that writing / politics (sophistry) or actual existing capitalism (ultra-crony-capitalism) are not.

Making some billionaire King is not enough. “Samurai are the total opposite of a Merchant.”

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Not necessarily before it happened, it’s understandable to be fooled, but afterwards, seeing how it turned out and seeing the pre-war narrative collapse utterly and completely, with no hope that even paid shills could continue to maintain it.

The ultracalvinists went waaaaay too far with that one.

1. 2002 – Post 9/11, Pro-Iraq-War build-up
2. 2006 – Contra-Iraq-War ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’ era.
3. 2007-8 – Obama Election (this is when most media outlets just dropped all pretense of balance and objectivity, and, in my judgment, a very disappointing sea-change at The Economist)
4. 2012 – Obama Reelection. The Romney failure in the face of Obamacare and a lackluster economy threw much of the mainstream / establishment American right into a permanent funk from which they have not emerged, and perhaps never will.

There seems to be some emotional function of hope and optimism vs expected momentum towards ‘the dream’. The dream once seemed possible, and now it seems to be progressively and irreversibly receding into the distance.

There has been a lot of denial and willful blindness and magical thinking for a long time. And then finally there is the shock of realization and depressed resignation at the acceptance of the ugly truth of permanent decline.

I think this is the frustrating emotional environment that is creating a lot of prereactionaries out there, looking for an escape, hungry for an alternative.

Technically Papuans are the Highlanders there; the lowlanders are Melanesian. My time was mixed between the two regions. I lived in Madang, Telefomin, Wewak, Ukarumpa and Port Moresby – some with my parents, others to be at school.

Such a different focus on life. Relationships are all important. Work is something that is necessary in order to eat but not overbearing; the country is productive and at least when I was there not overpopulated. A mix of hunting and crop farming (tribally), with all the modern opportunities mixing in. But poor relationships leads to serious consequences, so people came first.

Not uncommon to see a bush hut with a tv and video player inside, genset out the back. Contrasting elements of stone age and modern age technology everywhere.

I ramble; if there are specific questions, ask.

War shows you who’s who.

War can take you from Whom to Who, if you have balls and live.

War will show you who you are along with who is siding you.

In this sense the last 12 years of Prog war were for the Progs and hack Pols a terrible mistake.